[b-hebrew] midwives

Peter Kirk peter at qaya.org
Wed Nov 2 17:44:21 EST 2005


On 02/11/2005 21:27, Harold R. Holmyard III wrote:

> ...
>
>HH: Most female names do have a pleasant connotation. Some of my 
>female friends are named Grace, Joy, Celeste, Dawn, and Melody. Other 
>names include Felicia, Constance, and Desiree. Many names for women 
>have positive meanings even if we don't realize it. If you trace the 
>etymology, that is what you find. Please breeze through the following 
>list and see. I will give the part of the list for the letter A. 
>After the name will be its meaning. These are names from all around 
>the world, so positive messages are a universal tendency. ...
>

This may be a universal tendency, but it is not completely universal. I 
have met women, in the Middle Eastern country where I was working, whose 
names clearly reflect the father's disappointment at having yet another 
daughter. So Karl's suggestion that some Israelite women might have had 
such names is not necessarily wrong.

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Peter Kirk
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